Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…
Mate, what were the yellow buttons really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: yellow buttons
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 752 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless wife ruins the dinner, and the gold is stolen.» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 buttons | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 buttons | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buttons | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 buttons | det |
| 6 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 buttons | amod |
| 7 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 buttons | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and the yellow buttons | the yellow buttons | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Gold, Frederick's stash in the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stash | punct |
| 3 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stash | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Frederick | case |
| 5 | stash | stash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stash | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stash | Frederick | the garden | nom stash «possession transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
Option 2
Brass, the pedlars' cheap trinkets for sale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trinkets | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pedlars | det |
| 4 | pedlars | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trinkets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 pedlars | case |
| 6 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trinkets | amod |
| 7 | trinkets | trinket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brass | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sale | case |
| 9 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trinkets | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Just buttons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 buttons | advmod |
| 2 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Silver, the miller's coins in the cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 coins | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coins | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 miller | case |
| 6 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Silver | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cellar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cellar | det |
| 9 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coins | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coin | the miller | the cellar | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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